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How co-founders can align on growth strategy when they have different definitions of success

My co-founder and I disagree about whether to bootstrap our company slowly or raise venture capital to scale quickly, and we're realizing we have fundamentally different visions of what success looks like.

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What we've seen

The choice between patient building and rapid scaling reveals incompatible assumptions about what the company should become and what the founders want from it.

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